Background
SOLANDT, Omond was born on September 2, 1909 in Winnipeg. Son of Donald McKillop and Edith (Young) Solandt.
SOLANDT, Omond was born on September 2, 1909 in Winnipeg. Son of Donald McKillop and Edith (Young) Solandt.
University of Toronto.
Lecturer in Physiology, University of Cambridge 1939. Director S.W. London Blood Supply Depot 1940. Director Physiological Laboratory, Armoured Fighting Vehicle School 1941.
Director Tank Section, Army Operational Research Group 1942. Deputy Support Army Operational Research Group 1943, Support 1944. Chairman Defence Research Board 1946-1956.
Assistant Vice-President, Research and Development, Canadian National Railways 1956, Vice-President 1957-1963. Vice-President Research and Development and Director de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. 1963; Vice-Chairman Board of Electric Reduction Company of Canada Ltd.
1966-1970; Director Mitchell, Plummer and Company Ltd. 1971-1975, Huyck Corporation 1966-1980. Chancellor University of Toronto 1965-1971.
Chairman Science Council of Canada 1966-1972. Chairman Science Advisory Board Northwest Territories 197682. Director Expo 67; Public Governor Toronto Stock Exchange 1971-1976.
Trustee, Institute Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre 1976-1986, Institute Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas 1976-1981, Institute Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi 1977-1983, Institute Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Dhaka 1979-1982. Research Adviser, Royal Commission, on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster, St. John's, Newfoundland 1981-1985. Fellow Royal Society of Canada, Royal College, of Physicians (London) 1948, Trinity College, Cambridge 1945 (now Honorary Fellow).
Governor Arctic Institute of N. America 1960-1965, Fellow since 1973. Fellow, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute 1966. Consultant to National Science Foundation (US) in the Antarctic 1969.
Founding Chairman Science Advisory' Board of N.W. Territories 1976-1982. Honorary Foreign Association American Academy, of Arts and Science 1976.
Engineering Institute of Canada.
Married 1st Elizabeth McPhedran in 1941 (died in 1971), one son, two daughter. Married 2nd Vaire Pringle in 1972.